An Irish Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss
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An Irish Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss
By Samuel Wallace, Dublin, Late 18th Century
With two-stage barrel turned and belled at the muzzle, octagonal breech engraved 'Dublin' and stamped along the top flat with Irish registration mark 'WM 2405' for County Westmeath, plain tang (broken through), signed flat bevelled lock, figured full stock (fore-stock repaired on one side, and to the left of the barrel tang), plain brass mounts including trigger-guard with acorn finial, vacant brass escutcheon, single turned ramrod-pipe, and later brass-tipped ramrod, Irish proof marks and Wallace's barrelsmith's mark
37.7 cm. barrel
Footnotes:
Samuel Wallace is recorded in Dublin between 1785 and 1798
By Samuel Wallace, Dublin, Late 18th Century
With two-stage barrel turned and belled at the muzzle, octagonal breech engraved 'Dublin' and stamped along the top flat with Irish registration mark 'WM 2405' for County Westmeath, plain tang (broken through), signed flat bevelled lock, figured full stock (fore-stock repaired on one side, and to the left of the barrel tang), plain brass mounts including trigger-guard with acorn finial, vacant brass escutcheon, single turned ramrod-pipe, and later brass-tipped ramrod, Irish proof marks and Wallace's barrelsmith's mark
37.7 cm. barrel
Footnotes:
Samuel Wallace is recorded in Dublin between 1785 and 1798
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An Irish Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss
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